Liu Yang Quotes

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I've gone through the medicals and the training and now I'm officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.

I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.